by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 26, 2011 | Opinion
President Obama spoke from the Rose Garden last Monday morning about economic growth and deficit reduction. He talked about a government that spends less and collects more, the latter through changes to the tax code. “It is wrong that in the United States of...
by Bob Newell | Sep 26, 2011 | Opinion
When we returned to Greece after two weeks in the United States, an Albanian friend approached us so happy, so uncharacteristically joyful. She blurted out that she had found more work. Never mind that she was working in the place of one who, like almost everyone else...
by Colin Harris | Sep 26, 2011 | Opinion
A recently posted comment in response to a news interview with Ellin Jimmerson – who is featured in “GospelWithoutBorders” and who is suing in an effort to block Alabama’s new immigration law – suggested that a more apt title for the documentary...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 23, 2011 | Opinion
A scary melange of religion and public policy reared its fearsome head Sept. 20 when Rick Perry, governor of Texas and a potential Republican candidate for president, took advantage of the “should the U.N. recognize Palestine as a state?” brouhaha to...
by Drew Smith | Sep 23, 2011 | Opinion
The heart of Jesus’ message is the desire for peace. At one level, Jesus called people to follow him as a path to finding peace with God. Yet, at a more experiential level, Jesus called people to be at peace with one another. Indeed, in the Sermon on the Mount...
by Laura Barclay | Sep 23, 2011 | Opinion
A bivocational Hispanic pastor told an interfaith gathering at First Baptist Church of Greensboro, N.C., about how stressful the threat of deportation had been for him and his family – the rest of whom are U.S. citizens. “They put me and my family through all...
